Starting with Story Timelines: A Powerful Launch to the Year by Emily Strang-Campbell
One silver lining to this year – I’ve been forced to rethink some of my teaching methods in new ways, including how I kick off the year. In my past role as a staff developer, I’d often work with teachers and kids to create reading and writing timelines as we launched our workshops. I’d asked them to jot times when writing felt powerful in their lives and times when it felt hard along with the books that had been the most influential. This summer, as I was planning these lab s
